immigration – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:38:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg immigration – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Mapping Where Migrant Children Are Detained https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/06/mapping-where-migrant-children-are-detained/ Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:38:26 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785796 More]]> The Washington Post is mapping the locations where migrant children are being detained, and is asking for reader submissions to update the map. [Kaz Weida]

I believe other maps of detained children are being produced; I’ll post links as I learn of them.

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Along with Regions and Seasons (previously), the Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center is hosting another exhibition, Who We Are: Boston Immigration Then and Now, which runs until 26 August. “This exhibition compares the landscape of today’s ‘new’ Boston with that of over 100 years ago. The maps and graphics on display here show where Boston’s foreign-born residents originate from, and where newer immigrant groups have settled, while celebrating who we are, and the vibrant diversity that is Boston.” Text is in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole, Chinese and Vietnamese.

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Le Télégramme, a French newspaper based in Brittany, maps the percentage of immigrants in France by canton; a second map shows the largest source of immigration (Portugal shows up more than any other country). In French. [Maps Mania]

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